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Paul Stortz

 



220-3240
pjstortz@ucalgary.ca
SS 206
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~pjstortz

  • PhD, University of Toronto (history of Canadian universities and the professoriate)
  • MA, University of British Columbia (history of Canadian rural education)
  • BA (hons.) York University (Canadian history)
  • BA, Lakehead University (British history)

Information

Research Interests:

Historiography and interpretive histories of Canadian universities

Social and intellectual histories, and narrative inquiries, of the professoriate and academic cultures

Histories of cultural and community effects and production of higher education in Canada

Histories of liberal-humanistic knowledge transfer and discipline construction

Histories of ethnicities and gender in Canadian higher education

Histories of Canadian rural education

Academic publishing and editorial cultures in Canada

Current Research
University of Calgary Research Grants Committee, “Professors as Community Ideologues: The Professoriate and Constructions of Western Canadian Identities, 1900-1950” (Principal Investigator, 2007-09).

SSHRC Standard Grant, "Picturing the Professoriate: Culture, Identity, and the Making of the Professoriate in Early Twentieth-Century Canada" (2006-09).
Courses
Courses Currently Teaching or Taught in the Past:

  • COMS 717: Academic Publishing in Canada
  • CNST 437: Activism and Protest in Canada
  • CNST 401: The University of Calgary in Western Canadian Culture
  • CNST 361: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Canada
  • CNST 333: Comparison of Canadian and American Cultures
  • CNST 201: Introduction to Canadian Studies
  • HTST 427: Ideas That Shaped Modern Europe: The 19th Century